found: University of Michigan website, March 23, 2015:faculty page (Richard Abel has taken a circuitous route to become a historian of silent cinema: an undergraduate student in Forestry and Wildlife Management and then English, a doctoral studient in Comparative Literature, and a partly self-trained scholar of cinema studies and cultural studies. He came to the University of Michigan from Drake University in 2002 as the Robert Altman Collegiate Professor of Film Studies. Fields of study include early cinema, French silent cinema, American silent cinema and cinema historiography ; richabel@umich.edu) {http://www.lsa.umich.edu/sac/people/ci.abelrichard_ci.detail}